Folding Sheet Metal Inventor

Use the fold angle to set the bend angle and the bend radius to override the radius set by the sheet metal styles if required.

Folding sheet metal inventor.

On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold. Use fold location to set what the sketched bend line represents the start of the bend the end of the bend or the centerline of the bend. Specify the location of the fold line. The advantage to using folds over flanges is no material is added by adding.

Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal. Use the fold command to fold a sheet metal face about a sketched line. To meet the manufacturing requirement of providing rounded bends at the joints of faces relieves at the bends hems at the edges and seams at the joints you need a special kind of solid modeling tool. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending.

Sheet metal parts are a special kind of solid part. You make a sheet metal component by cutting and folding a sheet of metal of uniform thickness. Click the bend line to use for the fold. Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern.

The bend line must be placed on the face you are folding and must terminate at face edges. Unlike the bend flange contour flange or hem features which all add material to the design the fold feature does not add material. Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. In this tutorial video we will learn sketch sh.

On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold. In fold location click one of the following to specify. Click to indicate whether the line defines the centerline start or end of the bend. A fold on a sheet metal face forms about a straight sketched bend line that terminates at face edges.